In honor of national poetry month, a poem about pollen.

Yellow swirly
Powdery dust
Blowing in the wind
Art in the puddles
Today the world looks yellow.


Great Blue Heron
Perched
Large bird on tiny branch
Awkward or majestic?

 

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